{"id":478,"date":"2014-02-17T12:32:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-02-17T12:32:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:32:03","slug":"inpatients-at-kath-seeking-medical-care-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Inpatients at KATH seeking medical care elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-354\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kath-2_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-354\" alt=\"KATH\" src=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kath-2_0-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KATH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pregnant women on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital are leaving the wards to seek medical attention elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>This is because; doctors and nurses at the facility have abandoned work after they were attacked by irate family members demanding the body of a baby who they claim the nurses there stole alive.<\/p>\n<p>Citi News\u2019 Ashanti Regional correspondent, Hawa Iddrisu who has been monitoring the situation at the hospital reported that the inpatients are stranded while the hospital\u2019s outpatients department remains empty.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, security at the hospital however remains tight with armed policemen seen around some vantage points on the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Eric Opoku has told Citi News, he is hopeful the medical officers will return to work as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRESEC [Regional Security Council] has provided them the security so I am convinced that our Doctors will soon return to work,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant women on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital are leaving the wards to seek medical attention elsewhere. This is because; doctors and nurses at the facility have abandoned work after they were attacked by irate family members demanding the body of a baby who they claim the nurses there stole alive. Citi News\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,38],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}